https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/jef-raskins-cul-de-sac-and-the-quest-for-the-humane-computer/

strongly encourage visits to Cameron Kaiser's website:

https://www.floodgap.com/

also see What's In The Retro Room and Server Room

as well as the fun had by all unboxing the Raptor Talos II

or perhaps you'd enjoy a trip down the gopher hole

geminispace?

Super Dimension Fortress?

enjoy!

thought of another interesting webpage(not Cameron Kaiser):
https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/

i was checking to see if there was a newer version of EasyOS(which is now based on Devuan) and this rabbithole was the result:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/ … alus/2025/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/ … 025/6.6.8/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/ … -notes.htm
https://bkhome.org/news/202410/the-zig-language.html
https://gencmurat.com/en/pages/programming-with-zig/
https://gencmurat.com/en/posts/introduction-to-zig/
https://blog.lohr.dev/after-a-day-of-programming-in-zig
https://blog.lohr.dev/imap-introduction
https://blog.lohr.dev/smol-hello-world
https://bkhome.org/
https://www.google.com/search?q=hellowo … bkhome.org
https://bkhome.org/news/202209/rust-hel … -31kb.html
https://bkhome.org/news/202208/quick-he … rison.html
https://hookrace.net/blog/nim-binary-size/
https://www.muppetlabs.com/%7Ebreadbox/ … eensy.html

someday i would like to breakdown 4.4.10 Damn Small Linux(the last one before Robert Shingledecker went full-time on Tiny Core Linux) just to see if it could be somewhat modernized. also see Slitaz and the various Puppy Linux spins.

yes, i know dsl is supposedly "back" but it isn't small anymore(not that anything is these days).